Soft Apocalypse
Title Details
Pages: 106
Trim size: 5.500in x 8.500in
Formats
Paperback
Pub Date: 03/15/2023
ISBN: 9-780-8203-6369-1
List Price: $19.95
Subsidies and Partnerships
Published with the generous support of Georgia and Bruce McEver Fund for the Arts and Environment
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Soft Apocalypse
Poems that speculate through our dystopic present in search of livable futures
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Soft Apocalypse pirouettes in the “anemic glow” of late capitalism, its prose poems and lyrics performing in the civic pocket, in the offbeat, and by arrhythmias that offer improvisational measures for going on. Chrome angels, strange beloveds, and cool-eyed speakers cut speculative lines through precarious spaces of the present—deserts and nightscapes, neon-lit strips, corner stores, foreclosures, pharmacy queues, and “crumpled back alleys”—making imaginative economies, queer kinships, and alternative ways of being in the world. Nothing here is done with ease, but irreducible gifts do slip surreptitiously from palm to palm: after all, “we all need a little help sometimes / baby.”
Soft Apocalypse insistently edges these unofficial exchanges and intimate apprehensions against the official orders, projections, violations, and isolations of our time. Instead of calculating toward a dystopic ending, this book bets on its softer wrecks, a futurity in an intimately rewired collective.
—Andrew Zawacki, author of Unsun: f/11 and Videotape
—Peter Gizzi, author of Now It's Dark: New Poems
—Sally Keith, author of River House: Poems
—Emma Y. Miao, The Harvard Crimson